MUIR MATHESON & HERMIONE DARNBOROUGH composer conductor 10x8 STILL #PUB912

Original 10 inch x 8 inch Publicity Still of MUIR MATHESON & HERMIONE DARNBOROUGH.

Muir Mathieson (1911 - 1975) was a composer and conductor who conducted hundreds of films scores and was an influential figure in the history of British film music.
After graduating from the Royal College of Music, Mathieson became head of the music department for Alexander Korda at Denham Film Studios. He went on to establish the London Symphony Orchestra’s reputation as a film orchestra and also influenced renowned contemporary composers to write film scores.
During his wartime service with the Ministry of Information, Mathieson is credited with commissioning film scores from Arthur Bliss, William Walton, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Malcolm Arnold. Jointly with the composer of the score for the 1953 film Genevieve - the harmonica player Larry Adler - Mathieson was nominated for an Academy Award, in his capacity as Musical Director. He also made a brief foray into directing with Steps of the Ballet (1948).
Mathieson was also musical director on films with scores composed by others, most notably on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo in 1958, where he conducted Bernard Herrmann's score, later releasing an album of the music with the Sinfonia of London. In the year of Vertigo alone he is credited with musical directorship of 28 films. Overall he is said to have conducted the music for over a thousand British films
He married the ballet dancer Hermione Darnborough (1915–2010), whom he met in 1935 while conducting Hiawatha at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

The still is in very good condition with minor surface marks and a brief synopsis tacked to the reverse.